Mechanical motor



(No Model.) L v L. H. GONNER.

Mechanical Motor.

No. 236,485. Patented Jan. 11, |881.

N.PETERS, PMorU-LITOGRAPHER. WASHINGXON. C.

IINTTnn STATES A TTnNT einen.

LAURANGE H. CONNER, OF GRAND VIEW, TEXAS.

MECHANICALv MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,485, dated January 11, 1881.

` Application ledAngust11,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LAURANcn H. UONNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand View, in the county ot' Johnson and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Motors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aceompan ying drawings, and to letters or gures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specication.

This invention has for its object to provide an apparatus by means of which a series of weights or balls may be successively and continuously elevated to-any given height, to be subsequently employed to operate any suitable machinery by gravitation, as more fully hereinafter specitied. These objects I accomplish by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l represents a perspective view of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional view thereof, and Fig. 3 a horizontal sectional view taken on the line m x of Fig. 2.

rIhe letter A indicates an upright rectangular frame, constructed of any suitable material, and of a height corresponding to the height to which the weight to be employed as a motive power require to be elevated. The said frame is provided with a tubular passage, B, for the weights, which are in the form of spheres or balls, as indicated by the dotted lines, as shown in Fig. 2 ot' the drawings. The rectangular frame is open from top to bottom on opposite sides, and in one sideis located a stationary slotted frame, C, in the slots of which, at proper intervals, are pivoted a series ot' levers or dogs, D, which are held in a normal horizontal position by means of the pins E. In the other side, adapted to The respective levers or dogs-that is, the levers on opposite sides ot the main framein the stationary slotted frame and movable frame alternate with each other, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 ofthe drawings-that is to say, the levers on the movable frame occupy a position in a horizontal line directly between those in the stationary frame, and vice versa.

At the lower end ot the movable frame is a follower, K, and said lower end ot' the frame is connected by a link, L, with a lever, M, pivoted between standards N attached to the frame A. At one side of the frame A is formed a passage, P, open at the top, and communicating with the interior ot the frame A near its lower end by means of an aperture, R. The upper end of the frame A is provided with a guide, S, by means ot' which the weights are directed into the passage P, as more t'nlly hereinafter specified.

The operation ot' my invention is as follows: The weights or balls are placed in the passage P, and by operating the lever M the movable slide is reciprocated vertically in its guides. When fully down one ofthe balls drops upon the follower from the passage P. l/Vhen the slide is elevated to its full extent the follower carries the ball up until it passes the lower lever or dog on the stationary frame, when the lever or dog assumes its normal position and prevents the ball from falling back. Vhen the slide or movable frame is again depressed another ball talls upon the follower, and upon raising` the movable frame the said ball will be elevated, as before, and the preeedin g ball will be elevated by the lower lever or dog on the movableframe or slide and held by the next lever or dog above ou the opposite or stationary frame, and so on until the balls reach the top, where they are utilized to develop power by their gravity, and are then returned to the passage P, to be again elevated for further use.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a mechanical motor, the combination of the frame A`, the stationary and" movable frames O and G, the dogs or levers mounted therein, the pins for holding said dogs or 1evers in a normal position, the follower at- IOO tached to the movable frame, and mechanism lever M, substantially as and. for the purpose 1o for reciprocating said frame to elevate a sespecified. ries of Weights successively, substantially as In testimony whereof I affix my signature specified. in presence of two Witnesses.

q 2. The combination, with theframe A, havl ing the aperture R and the passage P, of the L H' CONNER' stationary frame C, having the dogs H and Witnesses: pins l, the movable frame G, having the clogs W. G. DAVIS, D and pins E, the follower K, link L, and F. E. DAVIS. 

